COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.